Cartoon from The Guardian: The 2010 Question (Tony Blair)

[Solly Mack]

Link to various quotes on the inquiry

"Sometimes distinct issues were rolled together, allowing Blair to answer only the last, or sometimes none at all. He responded to a question about the controversial intelligence dossier with a speech about how seriously he takes the nuclear threat from Iran. He responded to a question about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq with a reply about military action taken alongside Bill Clinton in 1998.


The flaws in the panel's handling of Blair are, as usual, in the omissions."

Afua Hirsch
Guardian legal affairs correspondent

"Sabiha Khudur Talib, a 62-year-old grandmother from Basra, was led away from her house in 2006 by British soldiers, according to her son. Her tortured body was found dumped on a roadside in a British body bag. The Royal Military Police, we are told, is investigating. Should not Blair be investigated too? Contrast Blair's questioning with the questioning of Iraqis initiated by Blair and Bush."

Haifa Zangana
Novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime

"The only point of what the elected leader of the country believed is whether it corresponded with the facts. Because when what we believe becomes what is true, the road is open to take any action that suits our purpose. Tony Blair had a purpose. For all his "third way" twaddle, he is an ideologue. The unspoken assumption that he and Bush had a right to wage a war in which thousands of civilians died went ­unchallenged by the baroness, the knights and mandarins who make up the inquiry."

Ronan Bennett
Screenwriter and novelist

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[Solly Mack]

2. LMAO

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Considering what?

How about the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis? How do you feel they did?

Welcome to your short stay at DU! :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Dubya, is that you?

:rofl:

He stuck to his guns as Bush's willing tool, that's for sure.

[sarge43]

5. Right.

Run that by Sabiha Khudar Talib's family. I'm sure they'll find it comforting.

[sarge43]

8. Tombed.

That didn't take long.

[mmonk]

6. Recommended. Great quotes.

[G_j]

7. K&R

good quotes